Sentence examples similar to fire petered out from inspiring English sources

All organised resistance ceased ten minutes later and as darkness fell, sporadic firing petered out, while prisoners were rounded up, horses collected and watered at the captured wells.

The Turkish attackers were engaged by the regiment's machine-guns with enfilade fire and the attack petered out at dawn, leaving hundreds of Turkish dead.

This weekend's TouchPad fire sale has more or less petered out, and thousands of HP's little tablets that couldn't have found new homes.

Gateshead then wrestled back the ascendancy and Colin Larkin had a wonderful chance but from 18 yards could only fire straight at Clarke before the final five minutes petered out to extra time.

The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.

It petered out after two.

Several rallies have petered out already.

Her weeping petered out in time.

After a week, the protests petered out.

A wet Centurion Test petered out to a draw.

But it petered out after a few minutes.